[Mageia-dev] ANN: glibc-2.17 landing on cauldron...

Mon Jan 7 15:22:23 CET 2013

On Monday, January 07, 2013 01:41:23 AM Juan Luis Baptiste wrote:
+> On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+> > And glibc-2.17-1 and locales-2.17-1 are now built and should soon
+> > show up on the mirrors and it should be safe to update then...
+> 
+> And now on one of my cauldron boxes I can't update glibc, thus blocking the
+> rest of updates:
+> 
+> The following package has to be removed for others to be upgraded:
+> glibc-2.17-1.mga3.x86_64
+>  (in order to install glibc-2.17-1.mga3.x86_64)
+> 
+> 
+> installing glibc-devel-2.17-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+> meta-task-3-22.mga3.noarch.rpm rpm-build-4.11.0-0.beta1.7.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+> lib64rpm3-4.11.0-0.beta1.7.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+> rpm-4.11.0-0.beta1.7.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+> python-rpm-4.11.0-0.beta1.7.mga3.x86_64.rpm glibc-2.17-1.mga3.x86_64.rpm
+> from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
+> Preparing...
+> ###########################################################################
+> ######################## Installation failed:    package
+> glibc-6:2.17-1.mga3.x86_64 is already installed
+Try to do a urpmi --replacepkgs glibc
+I had some of these when I upgrade an old mga2 install.
+It did the trick.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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